Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
About the Book Series
This series explores core issues in political philosophy and social theory. Addressing theoretical subjects of both historical and contemporary relevance, the series has broad appeal across the social sciences. Contributions include new studies of major thinkers, key debates and critical concepts.
Political Thought of Hume and his Contemporaries: Enlightenment Projects Vol. 2
1st Edition
By Frederick G. Whelan
October 14, 2024
Intended for scholars in the fields of political theory, and the history of political thought, this two-volume examines David Hume's Political Thought (1711-1776) and that of his contemporaries, including Smith, Blackstone, Burke and Robertson. This book is unified by its temporal focus on ...
Radical Civility: A Study in Utopia and Democracy
1st Edition
By Jason Caro
October 09, 2024
Radical Civility unearths civility’s extraordinary potential by addressing why the virtue has fallen into crisis, recalling the injunctions that transpose utopia upon the stingy politics of likelihood, and by offering a vision of citizens who find purpose in dignifying each other. Jason Caro takes ...
Social Imaginary and the Metaphysical Discourse: On the Fundamental Predicament of Contemporary Philosophy and Social Sciences
1st Edition
By Christoforos Bouzanis
October 09, 2024
This book departs from approaches to truth in social science and ideas in philosophy that connect truth to the ability of language to fulfil certain ‘real-world’ conditions of objectivity. Pointing to an extra-linguistic level in our cognition at which scientific creativity occurs, it highlights ...
Utopia without Ideology
1st Edition
By Ambrogio Santambrogio
October 09, 2024
This book explores and proposes original definitions of central terms in political sociology and social theory, including political culture, imaginary, ideology, and utopia, in a manner that renders the individual definitions consistent with one another as part of a single and general conceptual ...
Civilization, Modernity, and Critique: Engaging Jóhann P. Árnason’s Macro-Social Theory
1st Edition
Edited
By Ľubomír Dunaj, Jeremy Smith, Kurt Mertel
October 08, 2024
Civilization, Modernity, and Critique provides the first comprehensive, cutting-edge engagement with the work of one of the most foundational figures in civilizational analysis: Jóhann P. Árnason. In order to do justice to Árnason’s seminal and wide-ranging contributions to sociology, social theory...
The Political Durkheim: Sociology, Socialism, Legacies
1st Edition
By Matt Dawson
October 08, 2024
This book presents Durkheim as an important political sociologist, inspired by and advocating socialism. Through a series of studies, it argues that Durkheim’s normative vision, which can be called libertarian socialism, shaped his sociological critique and search for alternatives. With attention ...
Nation and State in Max Weber: Politics as Sociology
1st Edition
By Jack Barbalet
October 07, 2024
This book shows how Max Weber’s perceptions of the social and political world he inhabited in Wilhelmine Germany were characterized by a nationalist commitment which coloured practically every aspect of his thought, including his social scientific writings and the formulations they expound. ...
Science Meets Philosophy: What Makes Science Divided but Still Significant
1st Edition
By Hans Christian Garmann Johnsen
October 04, 2024
The book is an attempt to bring together what are often seen as incommensurable scientific and philosophical positions. Its core argument is that a main reason for the divisions about what constitutes scientific knowledge relates to disagreements on philosophical issues. The book explores what ...
Bourdieu's Philosophy and Sociology of Science: A Critical Appraisal
1st Edition
By Kyung-Man Kim
August 26, 2024
This book explores Pierre Bourdieu's philosophy and sociology of science, which, though central to his thought, have been largely neglected in critical examinations of his work. Addressing the resultant confusion that surrounds Bourdieu's sociologized philosophy of science, it expounds his ...
Cultural Capital and Creative Communication: (Anti-)Modern and (Non-)Eurocentric Perspectives
1st Edition
By Oana Șerban
August 26, 2024
Inspired by Bourdieu’s thought, this book explores the notion of cultural capital, offering insights into its various definitions, its evolution and the critical theories that engage with it. Designed for use by students and teachers, it addresses the limitations and expansion of Bourdieu's ...
Populism as Governmental Practice: Spatial, Operational and Temporal Dynamics
1st Edition
By Toygar Sinan Baykan
June 28, 2024
Populism as Governmental Practice illustrates how populism functions as a phenomenon of power and draws attention to the brighter and darker consequences of populist rule for ordinary people across the world via bottom-up analyses of populist experiences of government in remarkably different ...
Max Weber’s Sociology: From "the Protestant Ethic Thesis" and the American Political Culture to a Sociology of Civilizations
1st Edition
By Stephen Kalberg
May 29, 2024
This volume outlines Max Weber’s comparative-historical sociology of "interpretive understanding" (verstehen) in a manner that clarifies his complex mode of analysis and multi-causal focus. Presenting the central features of his methodology, it demonstrates the strengths of his research strategies ...